[oneshtein]

They still able to read LKML, so it's not, but they no longer ask questions like "Tell me details of your hardware because I'm official kernel maintainer while you is just engineerer, so I can easily harm you career if you refuse to cooperate.", then use this information to improve hardware used in Russian weapons.

[whatshisface]

If official kernel maintainers could harm careers over not telling them proprietary hardware details, NVIDIA would be selling hot dogs at a street corner.

[Arnt]

It doesn't matter. The sanctions say "don't cooperate with those companies", not "unless the cooperation is harmless" or "only according to your judgment" or anything like that.

[whatshisface]

That explains why it had to happen, but says little about what our opinion about it should be.

[Arnt]

A rule that's simple enough to understand reasonably quickly is also simple enough to mishandle some corner case.

In this case: Pity for the guys who build Putin's glide bombs.